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Universal Detection Technology: Universal Detection Technology's BSM-2000 Can Offer Significant Cost Savings Compared to Curren

^{Published on 2009-04-01 05:00:17, Last Modified on 2009-11-03 09:16:41 - Market Wire}
 

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - April 1, 2009) - Universal Detection Technology ([ www.udetection.com ]) (OTCBB: [ UNDT ]), a developer of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and other infectious health threats and provider of counter-terrorism consulting and training services, announced today that its BSM-2000 autonomous airborne bacterial spore monitor can offer significant cost savings when compared to the Biohazard Detection System (BDS) currently installed at United States Postal Service (USPS). The findings are also confirmed by a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The USPS lost $2.8 billion last year and is looking at much larger losses this year. There have been also been reports of consolidation of operations at postal processing centers where canceling machines have been removed and most processing services have been moved to neighboring facilities. The most significant cost savings from the consolidation would be from eliminating the cartridges of the BDS which the postal service uses to scan for biohazards like anthrax. However, this will leave employees of the primary postal facility potentially exposed to contaminated mail with postal employees never knowing until maybe too late that they had just shipped a lethal cargo.

UNDT's BSM-2000 system is an autonomous airborne detector of bacterial spores. The system samples the ambient air and can notify a first responder of elevated levels of bacterial spores which is a typical signature of an airborne anthrax attack.

A GAO report concluded: "The BSM-2000 could be used as a front-end 'trigger' in a mail-processing environment to set off a BDS that would confirm if the detected bacteria are harmful. While we did not conduct a detailed cost analysis, it seems cheaper to let the BSM-2000 constantly monitor the air than having a BDS sample every hour. A BDS would only be run if the BSM-2000 detected bacteria."

"The BSM-2000 is the perfect front-end system to detecting an anthrax attack," said Mr. Jacques Tizabi, UNDT's Chief Executive Officer. "Our System can save the postal service millions of dollars by reducing the cost of consumables required for the BDS," he added.

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About Universal Detection Technology

Universal Detection Technology is a developer of monitoring technologies, including bioterrorism detection devices. The Company on its own and with development partners is positioned to capitalize on opportunities related to Homeland Security. For example, the Company, in cooperation with NASA, has developed a bacterial spore detector that detects certain biohazard substances. The Company is also a reseller of handheld assays used for detection of five bioterrorism agents, radiation detection systems, and antimicrobial products. For more information, please visit [ www.udetection.com ].

Forward-Looking Statements

Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the Company's actual results, performance and achievement in the future to differ materially from forecasted results, performance, and achievement. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes in the Company's plans or expectations.